Concurrent validation of the suicidal risk assessment scale (R.S.D.) with the Beck's suicidal ideation scale

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J-L Ducher, J Dalery

Abstract

The prevention of suicide is a top priority in mental health. The determination of high risk suicidal groups is not sufficient. The expressing suicidal ideas is not a protective factor, but in contrary a risk factor to take into account, or even to search and to quantify: 80% of the subjects who attempt to commit suicide or commit suicide express such ideas months before. Several evaluation instruments try to help the practitioners or the research workers in this reasoning. The suicidal risk assessment scale RSD can be cited in particular. It is composed of eleven sections. The 0 level corresponds to the absence of particular ideas of death or suicide. Levels 1 and 2, the presence of ideas of death. Levels 3-4-5, the presence of suicidal ideas. The difference compared to the majority of the other scales consecrated to the same subject, the passif desire of death, occupies a place totally particular in the RSD (level 6). From the level 7, the risk of acting out seems to become more important. It stops being a simple idea of suicide, but becomes a real will of dying, firstly retained by something or someone (level 7), the fear of causing suffering to dear ones or a religious belief., then determined (level 8). Finally, the patien...Continue Reading

Citations

Sep 29, 2020·Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie·J-L DucherI de Chazeron
May 15, 2021·Psychological Medicine·Amir Kabir, Jordan Brinsworth

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